did you hear them yell 'land dammit land'?

pad thai
from: pad thai
price: $6ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: grandaddy
comments: good pad thai. click on it to see the absolute BEST billboard I've seen in a long while. genius. pure genius. it has inspired me to call myself "Diamond Shreddie" for my rock name at our company's Rock Band battle on friday. whooo.

and dave had:

tacos
comments: dave brought tacos from home. click to see kevin giving thumbs up to a visit to the roof.

I had a lotta lotta fun, I made a lotta bucks and now I'm on the run

ahi tuna
from: Cactus Club
price: company treat
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to parappa
comments: yay free lunch from work. I'm not one to complain about free food, ever. I really appreciate it entirely, however... I shouldn't have ordered the Ahi Tuna. and I suggest you never do, either. not from cactus club. it was ok. not bad, I'd even say good. but not great or amazing like ahi tuna should always be. and then there was the feeling I had later that night. not good. stomach... ack. so I think it wasn't entirely healthy-eating. anyway... next time I have to go there... burgertime. oh and click to see the album cover I made for our rock band band that we're battling with this week at work. the cavity creeps.

and chris had:

kung pau! chicken
comments: chris said he likes noodles, and enjoyed his meal. if you clicked the first link, and wonderd why our rock band band is called the cavity creeps, click on chris's lunch and you will know. we make. holesinteeth.

now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall

subway melt
from: subway
price: $9ish
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: the beatles
comments: it snowed. yes it did. lots of fun snow. click the pic to see the "raindeer" as a "snowdeer". and if you want more snow, click here.

and phil had:

a subway tooooo
comments: click to see Phil's toy subaru. fun. and if you wanna get jiggy with that car, you can

and some dog:

peed in the snow.
comments:the great thing about snow is that you know where everyone has peed and you don't have to walk in it. know what the bad part of that is? 99% of the time, there's no snow. hmmmm... anyway, I don't know what dog peed. it was not louise. but you CAN click to see her.

I went down to taneytown, to see what I could see

butter chicken and yogurt pakoras
from: curry point
price: $7.60
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: steve earle
comments: yum curry point. just like back at the village. click to see them building the new skytrain all wiggly n such. If that gif doesn't make you happy, then surely this one won't either. I'm not sure which I like better, actually. so similar, but so different.

and I did not eat

barnacles.
comments: nor did erin, but if you clicky click, you see her smile not smile, smile not smile, smile not smile, repeet.

many miles away, something crawls from the slime

sea bass and chinese parsley congee
from: Congee Noodle House
price: $6ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the police
comments: had congee. yum. and in the linked photo... smagne!!! and across the street from the office... the raindeer! not reindeer. this one, I think, has something to do with the rain. kinda magic n stuff. and thanks to dave for picking up these fancy new headphones for me! yay! $25, not bad, huh?

and for dinner I had:

congee noodle house again. hooray.
comments: after work today, we had a bit of a jam session. a Rock Band jam session. we all consider it practice for next week's inter departmental battle of the bands. it's gonna rawk like this!

so take a look at me now

yet another burger
from: BK
price: $
rating: &&&/&&&&
listening to: against all odds.
comments: whopper was ok. shake was better. click to see wiggly alley. oh, and for a limited time I've made this video public. I won't be leaving it that way forever. so watch now. ack. this video shows why I don't play DDR (but, for the record... I beat Dave in that game :P ) if you're not familiar with this game, here's how it's supposed to be played. wow.

and yvette had:

some fried rice.
comments: yvette doesn't know I put her lunch here. bwa ha ha! she was away from her desk when I got the pics. and click to see her chocolate laaaaaaaaaaab, Nakita.

thanks for all you shown us. this is how we feel.

pad thai
from: pad thai
price: $6ish
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: weeeezer
comments: I met ed for lunch today. we went to pad thai. it was ok. not as great as I thought it had been in the past. maybe it's just better as take out. odd. even odder is phil trying to drink a bubble tea without a straw. click me lunch to see that!

and ed had:

the veggie pad thai
comments: click ed's lunch to see sasha working out a puzzle in the office.

when the road gets dark, and you can no longer see

burgerrrr
from: Triple O's
price: $10 ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: john hiatt
comments: the burger n fries was decent. but the milkshake... with the shots of espresso... wow. it's like magic. delicious magic. click to see the view from le monde du science.

and Waiz had:

chickeny burger.
comments: click to see louise posing for i can has cheezburger-like photo. hee hee.

Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay, the world survives into another day

seafood congee
from: congee noodle house
price: $8 with the donut
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: Bruce Cockburn
comments: good congee, as usual. if you click the pic you will see a picture I took for Bruce Cockburn. there they are, Bruce! you see 'em?! thre they are!

and dave had:

a chili enchilada lollipop
comments: yes he did. and he seemed to enjoy it after a while. click the pic to see what 40X zoom looks like from my newest camera. not bad, huh? I also got lots of animated gifs I haven't linked to yet. true story. like this one for example. more later.

just be for real

beef burrito
from: Best Burrito
price: $6ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Leonard Cohen
comments: hi. click the pic to see an animated gif. cuz that's what I do. I make gifs.

and phil had:

some bubble tea
comments: click phil's pic to see Travis's new toy. the $400-hundred dollar laptop. it's pretty neato looking. it's definitely made for smaller hands. if you want to see more pics, click here, or here, or here

there's a party in my mind, and I hope it never stops

pork chop special
from: Argo's Cafe
price: $9ish
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: talking heads
comments: another lunch, more wiggly gifs. click to see an idiot fedex parking job in the back lane. that flatbed truck was just sitting there honking.

and kevin had:

curry. (with a tony in the background!)
comments: kevin enjoyed his curry thoroughly, I'm sure. click to see my lovely Rickenbacker. and if you really want to see something, here's jamey's gibson collection

has the light gone out for you?

sandwich n salad
from: Solly's
price: $9ish
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: radiohead
comments: me eat food. click to see Louise begging to go home.

and phil had:

subway
comments: click to see funny japanese board game.

but I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T.Rex

a whopper and fries
from: Burger King and McDonalds
price: $7ish
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: the who
comments: so we hit both burger joints today. crazy. the linked photo is basically the 'mount' part that is Mt. Pleasant. someday I'll climb that mountain!

and phil had:

nuggets with his whopper
comments: click to see a few of us up on the roof. heh. the roof is fun. cuz I can take crazy gif pics like this and this.

the voyage to the corner of the globe is a real trip.

pizza
from: work
rating: free food!
listening to: ween
comments: turtle turtle!

and andy had:

the same pizza.
comments: click to see what I should get, cuz I wanna make more wiggly gifs!

she's such a charmer, oh no

a jame-dog burrito
from: budgies burritos
price: $7 +t
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: kings of leon
comments: I walked up main to get to budgies. nice weather to take a couple photos. in the linked photo you can see how awesomely a 10X zoom lens compresses depth. so cool.

and my coffee was:

lit by a laser.
comments: none, thanks.

a pick axe in my head

1/4 poundah n fries
from: you can't tell?
rating: &&.5/&&&&&
listening to: chris whitley
comments: after work today, I went snowboarding. it was snowing a lot. and very wet snow. I never took my camera out of my pocket, but if I had, I probably woulda taken a photo exactly like the linked one here. not good weather on the mountains, but a good first day for me. gotta get up more this year.

and dave had:

the same thing
comments: phil was kind enough to pick us up food, cuz of my late start in the day. but, as you can see by the linked photo, the rain was so much that it ate right through the lunch bag. crazy rain.

I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbequed iguana

pad thai
from: Pad Thai
price: $5.50!
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: wall of voodoo
comments: this blog is late, so it's not overly exciting. there was a little problem with a power outage and me waking up way too late yesterday. which, actually is tomorrow. oh late blogging. so confusing. anyway... such good value and food from Pad Thai on broadway between main and quebec.

and tony had:

the yeller curry
comments; click to see Minion. she visited me and hemi again over the holidays, alas, she's back home now.

you pick the place and I'll choose the time

chicken burger mealy
from: Triple O's
price: $9ish
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: pink floyd
comments: there was a bit of a mix up with our meals at lunch today. phil got mine, I got his. and by the time I noticed, he had half eaten my burger (see pic right below). oh well. the chicken was good too. click to see a pic I took of the BC Place dome while picking up our lunches.

and phil had:

cheddar bacon burger. :(
comments: click this lunch to see a pic I took playing with my new green laser. this pic shows the laser hitting the BC place dome about 1km away! if you prefer a video, I posted one on youtube. it's hard to tell in the vid/photo that it's hitting the dome, but with the naked eye, it's very obvious. and so cool. couldn't tell if I was hitting harbour centre... that will be a test for another day. with a spotter downtown. hear that atimi peeps?

and phil also gave me:

a tiny orange.
comments: I think he felt bad for eating mah burger. it could be dangerous to come between a gwilli and bacon. but hey, free tiny orange.

don't let the front door hit you when you're stupid

sushi
from: ichibankan
price: $8.25
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Brak
comments: did ya miss me? me vacation is now over. I'm back at work, thus back at eating. can you believe I went 2 weeks without lunch? anyway, click the pic to see the 2nd Hemi that I got for christmas. wheeee.

and I also had:

gomae-ae
comments: click this pic to see the treat I bought myself during 'boxing week'. I know what you're saying... do I really need another?!?! the answer is yes. deal with it. this thing is crazy fancy, too. can I get a hell ya for being able to record 720p video??